One of the peculiar things about language acquisition is that children learn it much better than one would expect. It's the "Poverty of the stimulus" paradox th

One of the peculiar things about language acquisition is that children learn it much better than one would expect. It's the "Poverty of the stimulus" paradox that led Chomsky to assert innate capacity to process grammar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_of_the_stimulus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_of_the_stimulus